FA Cup 5th round draw - Fulham (a)

[Verbal]

4 hours ago, Barton Saint said:

Well it is south of the A4 and nearer the South Circular than the North..

Except that Fulham is in west London and is north of the river. Also, Fulham isn't "virtually in Chelsea" but Chelsea FC is actually, rather than virtually, in Fulham.  Are you American by any chance?

[Barton Saint]

No! Hampshire born and bred who spent many years working in Greater London…anyway the original point was trying to draw some correlation with 1976 so if we end up playing Man City in the Final then it truly would be ironic 

[Saint Fan CaM]

We’d be coming up against a Prem team sooner or later, so may as well go out now. Fulham will be too much for even our best team I’m afraid - could even be quite a demoralising experience for some of our players. Having said that, an upset in our favour could be incredibly positive too, so hopefully our team will be right up for it.

[Chez]

They don't tend to lose to lower league teams in the fa cup very often. Oldham about 7 years ago stands out.

[Pamplemousse]

11 hours ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

We’d be coming up against a Prem team sooner or later, so may as well go out now. Fulham will be too much for even our best team I’m afraid - could even be quite a demoralising experience for some of our players. Having said that, an upset in our favour could be incredibly positive too, so hopefully our team will be right up for it.

We did pretty well against Liverpool earlier in the season, any they only just scraped past Stoke in the last round.

They should win but we have a chance.

[Kenilworthy1959]

If we get through we are set for a major fixture pile-up as the 6th round is at the Easter weekend. So Wrexham away and Ipswich home will need to be rearranged along with the Norwich game. Its almost as if it was assumed that Championship teams wouldn't make it that far.

[Maggie May]

Misread. 

Edited 7 hours ago by Maggie May

[Charlie Wayman]

Very winnable and a good test of our progress and where we are. 

[Football Special]

4 hours ago, Kenilworthy1959 said:

If we get through we are set for a major fixture pile-up as the 6th round is at the Easter weekend. So Wrexham away and Ipswich home will need to be rearranged along with the Norwich game. Its almost as if it was assumed that Championship teams wouldn't make it that far.

I'd go further and say Championship clubs are encouraged not to make it that far.